Causes Behind The Rise of The Maoists in India

India, to the close of the first decade of the twenty first century, has been facing with the formidable menace of the Maoists. Union Government and some state governments in India are very much worried as measures so long taken in order to check the growth of this ultra force have not yielded favorable result. Maoists claim themselves as the followers of the Maoist ideas and they are found to be active in different parts, mainly, of the developing countries. They declare war against the state and attack the weaker centers of power and essay to gain considerable strength in the long run.

Mao-zedong was the greatest thinker and political personality of the twentieth century China. His life and ideas have potentiality to stir the mind of the young generation of a country where poorer section of the population is greatly exploited. Mao-zedong was a communist leader and among the communist leaders his rank is just next to Stalin of the USSR. He is the all-acknowledged leader who has helped the people of China disown the feudal bondage and raise their heads high as important members of the global human community.

Indians under the British rule were engaged in researches and popular movements in order to find out means to achieve national freedom. Movement against the imperialist British was generally peaceful under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, but armed struggles were never fewer. Historically, the industrially developed Britain captured a feudalism-occupied India. But during the third decade of the last century wonderful messages of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) reached India like wild fire. A section of the Indian freedom-fighters began to trace out meaning of life in socialism and communism. Despite all kinds of odds members and supporters of the communist parties started to develop working class movement. Yes, within a short period of the beginning of the communist movement in India its fragmentation started. But its organizers had a simple and gentle lifestyle which drew attention of wider sections of the people. Generally they had support-base among the students and intelligentsia, and workers and peasants were never in a position to disapprove them.